Currently Playing: Simple Plan – Welcome to My Life
Do you ever feel like breaking down?
1Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just dont belong1
And no one understands you
Do you ever wanna run away?
2Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming2
No you dont know what its like
When nothing feels alright
You dont know what its like to be like me
3To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked
When youre down
To feel like youve been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no ones there to save you
No you dont know what its like3
Welcome to my life
Do you wanna be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
4Are you desperate to find something more
Before your life is over?4
5Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With the big fake smiles and stupid lies
While deep inside youre bleeding5
No one ever lies straight to your face
And no one ever stabbed you in the back
You might think Im happy
But Im not gonna be ok!
Everybody always gave you what you wanted
You never had to work it was always there
You dont know what its like
What its like!
Welcome to my life
1We’ve all been here. This is the first year I’ve been at K-State that I’m starting to feel a little out of place. Like it’s time to move on. It’s not that out of place like I’m lost, just ready to move on.
2All the time. Well, not so much anymore because I have 2 roommates who are almost never both gone at the same time, but I used to do this all the time. I loved to escape to my room and turn up a good song really loud and sing at the top of my lungs. Or scream. Whatever my mood was.
3This was me middle of last semester. I mean I knew that things could be worse, but there were days when I had a hard time convincing myself that was true. I really was on the edge of breaking down. Luckily, I was able to get past it. I think it’s human nature to assume that no one could possibly understand where you’re coming from and how you’re feeling at any one given moment. I also believe that sometimes people really do have a pretty good idea of where you’re coming from. And as annoying as it might be when they try to help you, it’s important to remember that they really are just trying to help. Is that really such a terrible thing?
4This is a feeling I’ve felt a lot in the last few years. I think I’ve had a pretty good life overall. I haven’t been the most popular kid in school or the smartest or the most athletic or the best at anything. But it’s been good. Still, I’ve really felt like there is so much more to life. Like something is missing and I was afraid I was never going to figure out what it was. Now I know I’ve got a long ways to go before my life is over (at least I hope so), but that doesn’t mean a person can’t worry about stuff like that. I finally feel like I’ve found something more important in this life. I don’t know what I’d do without it.
5Unfortunately, I feel like this entirely too often. The world is such a cynical place and it can be so incredibly ugly. Just watch the news. Besides the cheesy uplifting story about puppies at the end of the newscast, when’s the last time you saw a significant story that wasn’t about tragedy, terrorism, or deceit? There is so much hate in the world it makes me sick. Even the things that are meant to bring people together (take religion for example) seems to do a great job of driving people apart. Moreover, it annoys me how fake some of the people around me can be. So many put on a face every day when they wake up, I wonder how often I actually get to see who they really are. So what if the real thing isn’t perfect? No one is. When’s the last time you let someone see who you really are?
Edit: I meant to put a little note at the bottom here that this hardly applies to me at all right now. But I’ve been there in the past, and I know people that are there now. Just because I’m not there now doesn’t mean I can’t relate.